Fan.



No. 874,142. PATENTED DEG. 1'7, 1907.

s. WEBB & J. PEARSON.

PANV

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16. 1906.

, new and useful Improvements in Fans, of"

UNITED s'rA r s EPATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL WEBB, OFGLASSPORT,'AND J'rQIES PEARSON, OF DUQUESNE, PENNSYLVANIA.

- FANF.

To a ll whom it may concern: a Beit known thatwe, SAMUEL WE B and JAMES PEARSON,

State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain which the following is a specification, refer ence being drawing. t i

Tlns invention relates to certain new and useful iin rovements in" fans, and the inven- 'tion'hasi or simple, inex its primary object to provide a Another object of this invention is the provision of positive andreliable means in connection with the fan iwhereby imparted to the fan when held in the hand of a person, without the usual and tiresome-ex.

motion may be ertion of moving the hand to andfro.

With these and other objects in view,

.w-hich will more readily appear as the inven:

tion is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to -be hereinafter more fully described and thenspeeifically pointed out in the appendedclaims.

Referring to the drawingforming art of .this specification, like numeralsfof re erence designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which":

Figure 1 is an elevation of our improved fan, Fig. 2 is a detailsectionalyiew of one "part of the fan handle, and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional viewof the fan blade or fan proper.

" In the accom anying drawing, linidicates 'a fan or fan bla e which is obyiously made of anydesign or form and of any suitable inaterial.

2 indicates a piece of wire bent o'r form-a standard for the fan 'or blade, and 3 and 4 designate theparts or members of a handle, which. also may be of such ma:

terial and formaswtaste may dictate, it being essential, "however, [that each member be of 'sufficient strength to retain their sha es under the actinmmfi-the tension devices erem after: df'e seribE-ed:

The with a p 5, and at its opposite en fls riveted or otherwise secured as at 6 to the blade 1.

'The piece of'wire intermediate its ends is bent to form a loop 7, said loop engaging the 3 lower edge of the'blade 1. and; a portion Specification of Letters Patent; Application filed nov'wteriaisoe. atr um. 343,693.

citizens of the United. Statesof Amer caflesiding at Glassport and Duquesne, in the county of'Allegheny and had therein to the accompanying v ensive and attractive "fan'. or 'noveltv avai able for advertising purposes, -'as wel as for amusement and 'eneral use.

1 i i parts 3 and 4 areoscillated with relatlon to l the wire 2,

, fan 1.: 'm ally maintain the handle parts 3 and/1 in a end of the handle, t

, tension. 7W hen the pressure is'reduce piecr of wire 2 at one endis' rovided- Patented Dec 17, $907.

thereof passin fOlfiflCl in the. ower edge of the fan 1.

nected together intermediate their ends by a piece of bent wire 9 theconnection being such as to permit the ends of the handle members to be oscillated in opposite directions with the connection 9 serving as a fulcrum, while the iends'of said handle parts 3 and 4 are slot- A ted, as at 10, to receive the endsll of cords or strings 12 wound around the piece of Wire 2 and secured to the loops and 7, as at 14. The handle parts 3and 4 are also connected together by piece of wire 2 passing through one of the convolutions" of each spring. p V

a By referring to Fig. 1 of the drawing, it

willbeobserved that the cords or strings 12 position. parallel with the Wire 2. I

. Whenthe' handle members are rocked or oscillated to move the ends thereof'in op ositedirections by applying pressure to'eit er which is being subjected to pressure, and therefore carried in a direction toward the standard 2, is compressed, while the spring 15,-at, the other end is expanded, thereby placing both ends of thehandle under s ring tension of the springs tends to move the handle members in the opposite direction, thereby rotating the standard and fan in the opposite direction, and if no furtherpressure is applied the handle members will resume their normalgpositions. If the latter movement "is, however, continued by a plying pressure to, the opposite end of the andle, a further rotary movement 'of the'fan in the same direction is 'obtainedfither springsv 15,, being placed under the opposite tension, so that upon"release of the tion are: D the hand e members are norressure, the members willa'gain resume the1r normal ositlons. I

' Amongthe advanta esof t s constructhrough a notch or recess 8 r e parts 3 and 4 which constitute the I handle members of our improvedfan are concoil springs 15, which form tnsion devices, the

e spring lgofthatend inally retained in a position where a considerable amount of the cord remains ound upon the standard at both ends and with I substantially no excessive tension placed thereon owing to the practically equalized ressure of the opposing springs 15; (2) the andle members may be operated by either the index or the littlefinger of the hand, the

former operating at the upper end of the handle, the latter a't'thelower end, in either case the springs tending to return the members to their normal positions, thereby permitting the user to operate at ditierent ends of the handle as. the finger being used be comes tired, without changing the position of the hand; (Elwhere the op )osite ends of the handle receive pressure alternately to increase the number of revolutions of the fan in one direction,the tendency of the springs -15 to return the members to their normal po sitions Will tend to unconsciously cause the proper finger to move in a direction to continue the movement until stopped by the-inability to further compress the members, so that a strict attention on the part of theuser is not required such as would-be necessary were a the movement of the handle members obtained solely by pressure applied by the fingers operating at opposite ends of the handle members, and (4) a movement 'of the'entirehand is not required to manipulate the members, the connect on 9 serving to support the hand, and thereby providing a structure which is less tiresome in operation, than where the entire hand is required in provid ing'the pressure-applying action.

, From the foregoingdescription, it will be observed that We have devised a novel fan thatcan be easily manufactured and sold at a comparatively small cost, whereby the fan may be used for advertisement purposes;

What' we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1, The combination with a fan blade, of a ece of wire riveted thereto and having a cop engaging'a'nd supporting the lower edge "of said fan'blade, handle -,parts arranged upon opposite sidesof said pieceiof wire and connected centrally to permit an voscillatory movement of theends in opposite directions,

' springs connecting said handl'e' parts on' op posite sides of the central connection, and cords or strings connected to the ends of said handle arts and wound-upon said piece of wire an attached thereto said springs being 'of a form and so positioned relativcly'to the handle partsand to each other. as to place a parts upon oscillation of said parts in either d rection from a neutral position, substantially as described.

handle-parts arranged parallel with saidloop supporting the lower edge thcre'ol, handle parts mounted adj acen't to and having theif normal position parallel piece of wire and adapted to have their ends tion to said piece of wire, each end'of the .support interposed between and connected toimpart a rotary movement to said hhi 4. The combination with a tan and a cated on opposite sides of the standard, said members being IllOIllllf-(llO prov de an oscil-i latory movement of the ends n oppos te directions, means connected with the ends-'of and tension devices between-and connected to sa d members; said-'deviccs normally retension, the oscillatory--iliovement of the members in either direction applying tension to both ends of the members. In testimony whereof we filllX-(iiliblfflifttures in the presence of two witnesses, SAMUEL 'WEBB.

. I 1 l JAMES- PEARSON. l/Vitnesses: i a

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spring tensionon both ends of 'the handle 2. A fan consistingof a blade, a piece of,

iece' of wire and connected centrally tonection, and cords or strings connecting the oscillated iii opposite directions with 'rela-' to said parts and means actuated by the, movements of the ends of said handle parts standard therefor,- of handle nicmbers'lo taining said members parallel with said standard in positions substantially free from wire connected thereto and having a loop supporting the lower edge of said blade,

"8c wire secured 'to saidblade, and having? a with said handle parts havingan independent tension the members and to said standard for rotat-f ing the latter upon oscillation of the members, 

